safe islam gadhafi said this number was exaggerated also dismissing reports that his father has fled the country meanwhile the unrest continues to spread her through the region with protests in yemen and bahrain and that mako regional expert a.t.'s who she says that global dominance groups are behind the way the whole us. we might be getting rid of of thirty forty or fifty euro regime but many of these countries certainly in egypt certainly in libya certainly in tunisia and back ring that might be getting themselves into just as bad or even worse trouble if they don't really understand the social proof so this is going on and we our full interests that may be driving them from outside of the middle east because i think this ties into a whole global pattern to we have to understand the major geo political term planning emanating from such organizations as the council of foreign relations the trilateral commission and the builder berggruen who afford to take

a bit in fighting the arab world and have been fighting the sovereign nation state as an institution on a global basis so in a way if they can get rid of these strongman men whether it be mostly mubarak in egypt or colonel gadhafi in libya and try to transition has always seen before to a more liberal chaotic and more controllable western style democracy that would serve in a privilege to serve what we have to be very careful about the various readings that we make of this very important that both the pro protesters on one side and the government do you know will be in egypt whether it be in libya whether it be in a back rain or in tunisia should understand the powerful social forces they are up against the psychological warfare tactics that are being used and they should not allow themselves either side to be used by interested objectives which are completely outside the interest of libya because all the egyptians or we are

tunisians or the iraqis or just about any country that is having such turmoil in the middle east the president. two iranian warships were delayed entry in egypt suez canal this comes after israel and the us expressed strong concerns over the dispatch first for tehran's navy earlier egyptian officials said they had checked the cargo allowing the two vessels to cross the passage was attacked by israeli ministers who called for the world to act against iran provocations artie's has been a following developments in tel aviv. there's many prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that he views with most gravity the posturing of these two iranian warships through the suez canal to the mediterranean sea he says that it's really an attempt by tel rand to take advantage of the current situation to exploited and to extend its regional influence we also heard today from the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman and he says that this is nothing short of provocation israel and

iran have not had diplomatic relations for the past thirty years and israel is concerned that iran is sending weapons to its neighbors that will ultimately be used against the jewish state is really soon relations are strained as well convinced an israeli official saying as much over the past few years that iran is supplying weapons to syria that ultimately landed in the hands of his vote in lebanon now the united states is adding fuel to the whole situation the u.s. state department recently set up a twitter account and it is using their twitter account to post tweets in flossy that supports anti iranian government demonstrators out on the streets of tehran we haven't seen the u.s. state department do anything like that supporting or even expressing any kind of opinion on the same kind of demonstrations that are happening in yemen since nine hundred seventy nine since the iranian revolution they have been you know iranian warships that have actually passed through the suez canal this is the first major

diplomatic headache for the egyptian interim government for the ruling military council as you well know. the mubarak had a close relationship with the united states he was an ally of the u.s. and at the same time relations between him and the rand was strained for the past thirty years it is not clear exactly why they gave permission we haven't had any insight on that but what we have been told reporting is that it took in officials have checked the cargo they are confident that there is nothing suspicious on board and as a result they have allowed their free gate and the supply ship to go through. coming up later today and cross talk peter lavelle and his guests discuss why countries in the middle east spend so much on the military and how the u.s. justifies its big business in the region. saudi and the g.c.c. states to me in part are somewhat comparable to a singapore of switzerland their small populations they want people to know they have weapons should be racially want to be left alone saudi arabia does have some incursions into yemen and he's using it charnock it purchased from the u.s.

and other states so i'm not sure about the missile or one could of course discuss the problem is that they're not using it at all i think it would be a question. is divided over claims that the countries jews should be compensated for the property they lost during the second world war while many including the government say the country was fighting against both afic occupation at any cost necessary but jews claim that that was just a pretext to steal from their families peter all over discovered. thousands of lives been jews were robbed of their property money and in many cases their lives by nazi treats one of the major issues is how not only side of nazi germany of

today so really. unfortunately many believe the lothian waffen s.s. who fought against the bolsheviks were liberators ever before but they in fact were bandits and robbers they have seen documents listing real estate that belong to jews killed in ghettos i think their property should be returned the amount of reparations claimed by latvian jews is around sixty five million dollars the country's government says that they will continue to hold talks with religious leaders in order to come up with a solution however those in power draw their support from nationalist groups who are far less diplomatic when it comes to the issue. lottery and administration is not responsible for the night you're doing on the holocaust began our country was under occupation by definition lightly and i thought at least cannot be responsible for actions of occupants local jewish leaders say that they only want what was stolen to be returned however they realize that this may be difficult with current attitudes in latvia while they wish as we need to broker to solve our social

problems and they would like develop an education culture that is maintain a synagogues and cemeteries that are right of course it's hard to find hours when you need to take back certain property while in the real world i hope people will understand and justice will be done a short distance from the capital is the forest where thousands of jews were executed it serves as a poignant memorial to those who lost their lives but in central riga there are equally chilling monuments to the holocaust like this synagogue which was burned to the ground with worshippers still inside over sixty five years after the end of the second world war the burnt out shell of this synagogue serves as a reminder to the tensions that still bubble between the local jewish community and those latvians that consider the s.s. troops to have been heroes while the government continues to draw most of its support from nationalist organizations a resolution for this conflict seems a long way off piece for all of our riga latvia. still ahead for you this

hour the heavy price for miscalculating operations in afghanistan. insurgency thrives on mistakes of the government the international community looking to the surge and civilian deaths in the north east which nato denies also. they say that though is the amount best friend but of course they feel blind guide dog is so much more than just companionship and the duty of care is a two way street we meet a blind man who went to every lengths to save his canine who was losing her side as well. the recession is proving that getting to university is not the meal ticket to a study career that it once was well millions of american graduates saddled with college debts funding their future foghat they're also laden with skills employers won't pay for us to see a church going to discovered only the blue color option remains. the international

children's fund has worked for almost a century to help the less fortunate than other nations now we want to tell you about a problem a little closer to home. for only fifteen thousand and he said today he'll give everything he needs to survive the idea of adopt a grad maybe a joke but modern day post college survival is most certainly not have seventy six thousand dollars hunted by tuition debt larry's one of america's college degree owners facing a job market that has long ago thrown out the welcome mat young people have twice the unemployment rate of most americans college grads are stepping out into the world in the worst time to try to land a job with around two million of them unemployed forcing many to forget about their skills and agree to any job on offer over three hundred thousand waiters and over

eighteen thousand parking lot attendant working in the u.s. are said to have a college degree moreover the u.s. bureau of labor statistics suggests as many as seventeen million americans with college degrees are forced to work jobs requiring less skills than a bachelor's degree provide raising an entire generation of janitors with ph d.'s as we have an ever higher percentage of kids in college and ever higher percentage of kids graduating at the same time as ever more kompany are hiring fewer people so what better time to question whether education really is the best investment bed with america's traditional promise of a dream life after college what students aren't told however is that the cash and time they are investing is going to come back to bite them. at twenty two charles with a bachelor's in films and a dream of directing is already getting ready to settle for less.

he's looking for any available jobs to pay off his student loan debt but has not been able to find any paid work. sixty five seventy thousand college. tuition bills. apart from weaving a dream career goodbye another big trend according to analysts debt driving much more than career choice if you want to help poor children as a physician good luck with your four hundred thousand dollars and other words people's college and university debt is beginning to pick their careers who they marry where they live with the economy and other countries pumping in full mode job hunting overseas is becoming a lot more attractive than in the u.s. a lot of my friends are considering jobs outside of the u.s. in india they're considering i didn't and try to sri with fifty thousand dollars of college debt so this debt works hand in hand with american culture take it or leave

it but it's the cost of living the american life to educational. dead taking out loans how is it is the car isn't safe so you just live from one day to another and the u.s. wants to hold top position as world leader in the number of college graduates at the same time not enough jobs are being created and debt piles up forcing millions of americans to settle for less than what they dreamed of when covering that higher education and party. all the stories we're covering for you are vulnerable right now with our two dogs and that's right's rissa lecture what else is there discover why you know that it was self. but it's been so has been seized by the facts. and the spy in the sky former russian a chaplain is turning their attention to the cost but plans to add some to the contrary space industry all the details are at our t.v.

dot com. a suicide bomber has killed at least twenty eight people in the northern afghan town of can do is police say many civilians are among the dead as the bomber targeted people queuing outside a government building it's the latest in a string of incidents claiming innocent afghan lives officials there put some of the blame on nato forces they claim that the coalition raids killed sixty four civilians in the north eastern province over the past few days but the alliance says it was armed insurgents who were killed even so it has dispatched investigators to look into the claims. and zoya says such incidents only help the taliban to recruit new members among the desperate locals. it's an ugly or nor an

no one wins but the insurgency thrives on mistakes of the government and of the international community casualties of the perfect mistakes for them to drive on and to seize up on the news probably opinion in their own favor and also government inefficiency and government problems. this is something that the international community and i've got in the government has to. learn and also dr drew isolate the population from insurgency. and next hour we hear how u.s. operations in afghanistan are not all the doomed to failure there but how the consequences will reverberate for washington's wider global of world peace and conflict expert and has been studying america's moves for years and here's some of what he has to say. for this going to happen to afghanistan this not

decide that in bush's in my view it's this side of the axis that is stumbling beijing. to game. russia. china. increasing irrelevance or washing some would have been come to the conclusion that enough is enough that conclusion may not be drawn publicly but the kind of pull back to the faith of the us but is this side on the outside the implications of it is this i don't even see it. as american politicians in congress wrangle over slashing the world's biggest military budget some republicans suggest putting a stop to foreign aid as well well that idea has been slashed by the council on foreign relations a think tack that says the money helps poor countries stab out their own but as our military contributor explains in reality the cash brings

a very different consequences. see if our experts to be very case at l.a. times trying to save the state department and id budgets from the incoming solution burn attack by rand paul and other republicans the main case in favor of saving or even marginally increasing the us state department and d. budget is based on their false premise their id reach officially stands for american international development allegedly does develop their client states and consequently promotes pax americana all over the world on a shoestring budget in reality it's quiet the opposite because for the recipient countries id's stands for american international dependence not development

consider egypt for example the us have invested one point five billion dollars annually in promoting self-sufficiency and independence of egypt agricultural sector by. in reality age of dependence on import off you as gray in these as big as it's ever been and that's why i strongly and sincerely support senator rand paul initiative to completely abolish a idea out as they counterproductive and totally an effective reach in their way spreads anti-american feelings and resentment toward state department hypocrisy all over the world. well let's have a look at some other international headlines now a string of attacks on targets of the mexican city of acapulco has left thirteen people dead the city has been the scene of bloody drug cartel wars for years taxi drivers have often been targeted for extortion and recruited to transport drugs and

act as lookouts for gags well mexico is and during one of the bloodiest periods in its recent history with increasing violence killing fifty three people in the past three days. ten children have been killed in a blaze at an orphanage for youngsters with disabilities in western estonia nine adults and thirty seven children were in the wooden building when the fire started most of the children at the home used wheelchairs and were unable to escape the flames for the cause of the far has not yet been determined and the story of government has declared monday a day of mourning throughout the country. one hundred seven pilot whales have died after becoming on a remote island off the south of new zealand authorities were alerted when a pair of hikers discovered the whales about half were still alive at the time but were euthanized their suffering time constraints and an approaching storm made it unfeasible to rescue creatures. now

a dog's devotion to its owner is often reciprocated but one man in the russian city of novosibirsk has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure that his guard dog gets a second chance however as found out these gifted animals are in short supply. when the next. began leading you astray he realized that rather than a visual aid this might be more of a case of the blind leading the blind to the. suspicions. we find contracts on the. urgent measures. but as they say. and despite the large cost of the operation lexie was determined to find a solution. i don't like to think about how much it cost me i took extra work and saved my pension for surgeries it was worth it. we had to stop the inflammation and

then remove the islands from the dog severely damaged by the surgery was successful and the dog's now able to see again. in a country with a very quarter of a million blind and visually impaired the number of guide dogs available is where you feel inadequate training center on the outskirts most gay is one of only relatively few and the only one that's government funded there up to eighty dogs being chained here in the center at the moment now the training of the dogs typically starts in there between ten months and two years old and many of the puppies are bred in the third. but the schools in a catch twenty situation when we see further government funding to increase the numbers trained until demand is higher but the demand remains low as many simply can't afford the expense of keeping a patch and in a country struggling to adequately provide for the blind guy i don't completely invaluable as alexei. is like

a member of the family which is always in the same room as me. they say the dog is a man's best friend but of course if you're blind a guide dog is so much more than just companionship it's a chance to mobilize is so to really get your life back and that's why it's so important the more guys like this are trained up. on the back of the headlines shortly but first you was here with a business update. hello that's right time for the business day at a very warm welcome yandex aspiring to place and michelle public offering worth up to one billion dollars. the summer russia's leading internet search engine has hired deutsche bank and morgan stanley as underwriters for the i.p.o. and plans to trade on the nasdaq stock exchange the search engines offering could become one of the largest four companies in twenty eleven and mailed out our use

nine hundred twelve million dollar i.p.o. last november. which recently landed in the top fifteen most innovative companies previously planned to issue shares back in two thousand and eight but halted its plans to tour the crisis. in the book zero project europe's answer to russia's back to north and south stream gas pipeline for jets has doubled in cost after a recent revalidation the proposed three thousand and two hundred kilometer pipeline which the e.u. hopes will help reduce dependency on russia by transporting gets from b.p.'s new twenty billion dollar project in the caspian sea was initially supposed to cost nine and a half billion dollars but a recent assessment by b.p. her split the cost of nineteen billion dollars many analysts have questioned the project's viability as the majority of the gas fields intended to supply the pipeline have yet to be developed. and the ongoing dispute between

shareholders in the rules committee will could be coming to a close after the company made renewed offer to buy back twenty percent of its shares from one of its own as a luxurious bust up. since the middle of last year two of neurons to nichols majority shareholders the c.e.o. all of them sell a leg to deposit and the head of interoffice the attorney and have been vying for control over the nickel producer with them both billionaires having twenty five percent blocking stakes and refusing to yield to one another and if further development of the company is being blocked chris were third believes how well that the outstanding issue in ending the world is now. just a matter of price. it does appear we're now entering the the end stages of this long running dispute we know some key minority shareholders and russo are pressing the board to accept this deal and even the controlling shareholder himself

has now acknowledged that they're likely to sell it's no question of price hiking so we certainly see that we are more likely to get a deal over the next few weeks or maybe might even take the next few months but at least i think the principle that it's that we're now talking about the price of the exit rather than the principle of the exit i think that's now been established. time to have a look at how the markets fare in the sciences see already in europe investors are not making any big moves nervous about tensions spreading across the middle east and north africa retail shares and pharmaceuticals are high and whether a solid out the form on the dax is german pharmaceutical for burke up to four point two percent after it reported better than expected results. and in russia the equity markets being the we are starting the week on assumption no choice continues to rise due to the political upheavals in the middle east and this is helping to push energy shares

a little higher what may keep the indices treading is the lack of news from the us as the american markets are closed on monday for presidents day. and now taken a look at some of the individual share moves brant crude for april delivery is trading just under one hundred five dollars this is providing some support for the energy majors as you can see gas probably is leading the pack point seven percent this hour and rushes to talk well firms look or a lot of the slim margin line up. and h.s.b.c. could be the next foreign bank to quit its retail banking business in russia the news comes after a british bank barclays spanish bank sometimes and twitters swiss bank all closed a retail operations in russia experts say banks that didn't manage to expand their business quick enough prior to the crisis are finding it easier to sell it off and meet increased competition. that's all we have time for now join me in less than one last time for more vicious news and get more stories from a website r.t.

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